monde extérieur
\mɔ̃d ɛk.ste.ʁjœʁ\
The verdict
“monde extérieur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Ensemble des choses ou des êtres que nous percevons au-dehors de nous.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monde extérieur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃d ɛk.ste.ʁjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “monde extérieur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for monde extérieur is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ̃d ɛk.ste.ʁjœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ensemble des choses ou des êtres que nous percevons au-dehors de nous.".
No misspelling variants are generated for monde extérieur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is monde extérieur, spelled M-O-N-D-E- -E-X-T-É-R-I-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des choses ou des êtres que nous percevons au-dehors de nous.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-O-N-D-E- -E-X-T-É-R-I-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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